tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060392340254349031.post6168206343736500477..comments2023-10-07T16:54:08.366+01:00Comments on Kit Marsden's Blog: On the prospect of a Trump Presidency…Kit Marsdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12313687638992094375noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060392340254349031.post-86287060318778189282016-11-16T12:30:29.106+00:002016-11-16T12:30:29.106+00:00You said you didn't mind people debating and/o...You said you didn't mind people debating and/or hurling abuse! <br /><br />I've heard this rhetoric literally thousands of times over the past 6 months. The evil opposition who are all of the things from our list of hated names. <br /><br />My thoughts on it are this - just as people on the left are afraid of a world proposed by right wingers, so people on the right wing are afraid of world proposed by the left. If people are being bigots and anti Islamic and such like, it's probably not because they are evil individuals who need to have their rights removed,but maybe because of fear. There is a culture at the minute where if someone expresses a political feeling they have, that doesn't fit a very strict set of criteria of criticising the correct people and defending correct people then that person is called one of the list of names to choose from (racist, bigot, islamophobe, misogynist, and so on), they are then no longer allowed a platform. This doesn't make peoples fears or feelings to away, but they then cannot express it until they get to the privacy of their own voting booths. <br />So yes there are some crazies, on both sides but the problem with socially calling everyone who doesn't adhere to the millenialist, politically correct list of dogmas invalid in the debate then the middle ground people will be pushed to the extremes. <br /><br />What is better is to allow each segment of the spectrum to have a political voice and then we should be able to trust the common person to hear the things on the extreme and say 'that sounds a bit extreme!' and in history, the gell curve generally falls to the safe, nice centre. And if we don't feel like we can trust the electorate to do this, then we are saying we don't want a government decided by people. <br /><br />Trump is just a man who says things that he thinks people will like. Who knows what he actually believes, he's not a sociopathic genius, he basically a celebrity who has money. He's a bimbo! . We give credence to the more extreme cases of his followers when we Emanuel Goldstein them on telescreens every day so that we can yell at them at the alloted time to show our loyalty to the Gaurdian! <br /><br />Adamnoreply@blogger.com